A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 125

Cousin?!

Cordy flinched while she was still in John’s arms, and he clearly felt her move!

“Come here,” John then told Zoe.

Zoe did so tentatively with an unsteady gait. Though her cheeks were flushed from alcohol, she looked utterly afraid, like a child about to ask their parents for forgiveness.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt you making out,” she said with a wounded tone. “I just needed to pee.”

On the other hand, although Cordy had been resistant toward being intimate with John, she was left so utterly awkward she buried her head within John’s embrace, too ashamed to show her face. John certainly knew that Cordy was embarrassed, but he was not letting her off the hook either. He pressed, “And what do you call my grandfather?”

“John, you’re scaring me.” Zoe’s pupils were dilating–did he somehow lose every bit of intelligence from making out?!

Still, seeing the serious look from her cousin, she had to answer honestly. “Grandfather.”

then and asked Cordy, who was still hiding her face, “So? Do you understand the

were blushing harder than when he bit her. Still, she nodded without

like to see my birth certificate as well, Ms. Sachs?” John asked just

shook her head, even as Zoe was left

into you two?” Zoe could

misunderstood that I was

suddenly felt a dainty hand on

his chest, her eyes pleading

was more than enough

and she could clearly feel it on her palm along with his warmth–as

perplexed by their curious interaction. “What on earth are you up

You can go now,” John

upset at that–was she supposed to

said then, his tone

saying that Zoe was scared